Word: marsden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teachers will not go with the school to its new quarters: Miss Laura V. Tanner, of the English Department, and History Teachers Kate B. Reynolds and Theodora Bartlett. Oldtimers who will not depart, and whom alumnae classify variously as "meanies" and "peaches," are the Misses Emily Crawford (Latin), Edith Marsden (Geography), Emily Bennett (English), Elizabeth Allen (Mathematics), Josie Herbert (English), Fedora Edgar and Alice C. Hubbard (Art), Annie M. (Latin) and Mary L. (Literature) Brinckerhoff...
...mother of these sprightly spinsters is Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, lawful widow of the late Richard Marsden Pankhurst, LL.D. She too has dabbled in suffrage and brick throwing but now confines herself to peaceably furthering national reforms...
...Seventh Act. Nina gathers round her three men: her husband, her lover, and her faithful friend and adviser Charles Marsden, a ladylike novelist who yearns after her throughout the play. Evans is rich, Darrell a failure. The small son finds Darrell kissing Nina. She sends Darrell to the West Indies...
...Ninth Act. Son and flapper disappear to start life together. Darrell is finally sent away forever. Grey-haired Nina, grey-haired Marsden subside into the painless decay of dreams through which so many live when useful life is done...
...through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman. He rides in a circus, skins through a fire, hides in a creek, saves lives right & left while preserving himself for a happy and innocent ending. Author Marsden's smooth blend of color and complication might well start the addiction of conscientious objectors to the detective story...